>> I can't get it to compile yet (some serious python errors get >> generated late in the make process) > > I found this to be because it does not support compiling with python 2.3. > Fortunately in debian you can have multiple python versions installed so > it wasn't really a problem, in my case I found I just needed to point the > /usr/ python symlink at /usr/python2.2 (of course, you need python 2.2 > installed) instead of 2.3 during the compile of rekall. After it's > compiled you can change the symlink back, it only affects rekall at > compile time, not at runtime.
I think that it is unacceptable to require modifying anything in /usr tj build a package. Package build scripts should be fixed instead.